Improvement in nut-crackers



finira identi-I1 i PAUL cn'nnn'o, or DSSELDORF, rRUssIA..

Letters Patent No. k109,4=95,-'dated November 22, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN NUTCRCKERS. v

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and' making part of th'e same.

To all whom it may concern.'

, Be it known that I, PAUL Cremano, of Dusseldorf', in theprovinee of Rhine and Kingdom of Prussia, have invented a new and improved Nut-Cracker; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part vof' this'speciieation, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation, and

Figure 2 is a sectional elevation on a reduced scale.

This invention consists in thecombination vof a vertical standard, in whichis a transverse orifice, with a lever pivoted between a pair of lugs which extends from the standard into said orifice, a dish or bowl of' suitable size to hold-a nut being formed in said leve'r at the end .of itsshorter arm, andwith a ledge which projects from the front -of said standard above the bowl of the lever, and at such a distance from it that, when' the lever is lowered, a nut placed in its howl will he compressed between the same and theledge above, audit-s shell crushed.

The invention also consists inthe combination with the standard,lever, and ledge, of a basket or other vessel secured to the rear of the standard,.beneath the said orifice, for the purpose of receivingcraeked nuts, shells, &c.

In the drawinga is the vertical standard.

b, the transverse orifice in the standard.

c, one of the' two lugs 'which extend upward and backward from the standard into the orifice.

(l is the lever, which is pivoted between-the lugs.

.c is the nut-holder that is formed in the front end of the lever.

f is the ledge which extends from the front of the standard above the nut-holder.

his the basket which ris secured to the rear of the Ste.

be in proportion to the'weight or length of the level' ll.

My desi gu is `to render the apparatus ornate to such an extent as may lit it to be placed upon diniugtables. I have, therefore, in this instance, attached a plaster or metallic caricature Vof the human figure to What .I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let'- ters Iatent, is-

The standard a', ledge f, level' d, nut-holder e, and basket h, all arrangedas described. AWitnesses: `PAUL OER'EDO.

CHARLES LEGGE, CHARLES GLC. SIMPSON.

standard below the orifice for the reception of shells,

It is obvious that the effectiveness of-this device'will 

